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09/25/2006: "Press Release Questioning ideology and vision Recommending measures and calling for Unity"


A Naga International Support Center, NISC, www.nagalim.nl
A human rights organization

Press Release

Amsterdam, 24 September 2006

Questioning ideology and vision
Recommending measures and calling for Unity

The Naga International Support Center, NISC congratulates the K-Group who next to their more supreme and serious attitude has developed a sense of humor too. NISC is so much impressed with their way of words we would like to declare them the comedians of the Nagas. Their road show now moving at full speed finds audiences who cannot stop smiling and laughing. For a resistance Army which bases its stand on the wish of the people as their representatives is a novelty. Especially the K-group portrayed the NISC as the Neo International Satanic Centre (NISC), we felt confirmed in our perception that we were seeing a team of comedians of high caliber.
How could the K-Group develop such natural sense of expressive humor?

Lately the Tanghkul, the NSCN-IM and all seen as supporters of both the mentioned tribe and the only Naga organization have been attacked beyond belief. What dearly lacked this vindictive mudslinging and slandering is vision.

Should those who are active in mudslinging not have a vision for the future, the NISC, itself a target by the Khaplang group and the Naga National Council, NNC, asks?
NISC suggests that this vision should include the Naga principle as has been put to the people in 1951 by the plebiscite. No one doubts what the Nagas then decided and all essentially abide by that. Of course lots of things happened since then. However to uphold the right of the Nagas to self determination all who claim the power base, have to abide by the will of the Nagas. Anyone, any organization indulging in slandering and unsubstantiated mud slinging distances itself from the very people it claims to represent.

Nagaland is occupied by Indian Forces. From the onset of the conflict, it has been a conflict between India and Nagaland. Who stepped forward, not just to tell, but to take responsibility on what is in the best interest of the Nagas?

Rather than coming together as one the past has shown that Nagas are just like people. Some are prone to selfishness, others to a sense of power and some are susceptible to influences of those who have occupied them, either by force and thus creating fear or by funds so as to create an atmosphere of dependence. The longer the Nagas are occupied the more people are becoming susceptible to these outside forces. They feel it is impossible to attain what many people before them have sacrificed their lives for.

Why fighting amongst each other? Why stating who is Naga and who is not Naga? Why now? All leaders of all Naga armed organizations whether they are genuinely fighting for a Nagaland which people can determine their own future as was communicated to the British Simon Commission 1929, were once full fledged members of the NNC. All then underlined the plebiscite and since there is no other credible mandate from the people of Nagaland, all should adhere to the wish to be free. At the time of the NNC being the undisputed representative of the Naga peoples there was no dispute on whom Naga is and who is not. The dispute on the right to self determination only began when the NNC began to implement the Shillong Meet/Accord which on technical grounds it denies was an Accord, but was implemented through the disarmament and arrest of Naga soldiers and the foundation of Peace Camps, one still existing today. Many wounds have been left unaddressed and fester on. The people concerned, both responsible for defending an Accord which when taken seriously would have delivered the Nagas to India. After all, the Indian Constitution was adopted. This old pain, a pain which led to strong reactions culminating in ruthless murders, action reaction principle, attack and defense, led to the formation of the NSCN. Mr. Khaplang was part of the NSCN but 8 years after its formation, intervention by those with vested interests and aided by the Indian Armed Forces and/or Assam Rifles, rebelled against the very leadership he was part. Khaplang attacked the leadership of the NSCN now called IM – Isak Muivah. Seen in this light a Quit notice on a tribe smells not like vindictiveness but has all the makings of a personal vendetta. More so now that the NNC joined forces with the Khaplang group with the aim to regain the representation of the Naga Peoples it once had. This is why it condemns the NSCN and works hand in hand with the Khaplang group in turn supported by the Government of India, directly or indirectly.
Who are the real Nagas, we dare ask both the Khaplang group and the NNC? To disqualify Muivah and Swu for holding Indian passports seems ludicrous too. Does Adinno hold an Indian, Naga or British passport? Is she a British or Indian citizen? Is Eastern Nagaland Burmese? With what passport do the Kaphlang people travel when outside India, like when he attended a meeting of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland?

Is the Naga International Support Center to believe that serving Quit notices and warning letters to individuals, tribes and organizations are part and parcel of the policy to save the Naga Nation? As also other Naga tribes only later than 1929 or 1964 joined the national movement in full, why only singling out the Tanghul? Please K-Group explain that to the international support agencies!

Perhaps both the K group and the NNC do not yet realize that International Support Organizations do support the Naga cause. They do not support any personal interests or any parties indulging in slander, hearsay or mudslinging. Instead of using suggestive gutter language through firing pot shots via the press, the Naga International Support Center, NISC, calls on the leadership of the NNC and the K-group to make themselves accessible for a real dialogue on the basis of policy on the basis of ideology of the right to self determination and to make the goals public which lead there. NISC invites the K-Group especially to show its intentions to the Naga Peoples it represents and for which it is fighting to reach these goals and ask to come up with a Manifesto, or at least an accountable policy. Do both want to save Nagaland for future generations, is the question? It is questionable because what both are doing now looks like they play in the hand of the adversaries, the invaders. Continuing like this makes the NNC and K-group look like tools. Continuing this strategy leads to disintegration of Nagaland.
No sensible Naga who knows the right to self determination wants that to happen. Too many Nagas have given their lives to uphold that right against the invaders. To continue attacking on this scale, the Naga National Principle will be forfeited .The Naga International Support Center firmly advocates the right of all Nagas to determine their own future as a nation.
In order to resolve deep routed differences the Naga International Support Center proposes and recommends

- the set up an impartial Tribunal through which all allegations are to be processed. An impartial investigative body will examine the allegations, check them for validity and historical value, calls witnesses to hear first hand and concludes with public hearings to come to binding verdicts.

- a national dialogue on the basis of the Naga national principle based on Naga plebiscite, where the Nagas showed they wanted to be a sovereign Nation. This dialogue is being organized on the basis of having the best interest of all Nagas at heart. To avoid personal or other vested interests from creeping in, which are dealt with by the Tribunal, all participants of all those who represent the Naga Peoples are to show what they stand for and through what means they are envisioned to achieve those goals. This national dialogue is being organized with the aim to reconcile once and for all, to come together as one nation.
- to stop disruptive mudslinging, name calling, lowering of standards, singling out tribes to serve them with a quit notices, but to come up with documented proof of allegations so due process on the basis of checks and balances, fairness and democratic principles will mean justice for all.

If you do want to do this NISC will see you as expert comedians who intend to keep the Naga Society on its toes so that in the end democracy and respect for each other will prevail?

To be continued

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